Importing VG's from Itanium to PA-RISC

[Tom Marting]

Hello,
I'm attempting to put together a backout plan for a future migration and have a question: Is it possible to import volume groups (vgexport/vgimport) from an Itanium server (RX6600) to a PA-RISC box (N4000)? The volume group would be exported from one EMC frame (12 - 17.07GB luns) to another EMC frame (12 - 33.6GB luns).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tom Marting]

Posted in the wrong queue... will repost under administration.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tom:

This will work exactly as you would expect.

Make sure that your VxFS *filesystem* layout verion is supported by the version of VxFS (JFS) that you are running on each server and you will be fine.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Norman_21]

Are we talking about BCV or standard disks?

[Norman_21]

Refer to the man pages of vgchig:

If this is a BCV then you'll need to run vgchid to change the LVM VGID before you import the VG.
vgchgid "/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx"

[Norman_21]

Typo: vgchid=vgchgid